WOMS210 Study Guide - Final Guide: Synoptic Gospels, Church Fathers, House Church

• School: University of Delaware
• Department: Women's Studies
• Course: WOMS210
• Professor: Naccarelli Reese Jennifer

Document Summary

Therigatha a collection of poems attributed to early buddhist nuns. A person who has reached enlightenment while still alive. Married his cousin when he was 16: had a son, loved his wife. He left his family at the age of 29. To pursue the life of an ascetic wanderer. He felt unsatisfied with his ascetic life. One night he discovered the law of karma: actions have moral consequences. Emerging from his nirvana, he realized the four noble truths. At the end of the night he came the enlightened one. Life is inevitably saturated with suffering (birth, sickness, old age, and death) Desire and yearning is the cause of suffering (suffering originates in our desires) Suffering will cease if all our desires cease. Realization of nirvana consists of wisdom, morality, and contemplation. The buddhist traditions had the opportunity to include women more than did any other religious group emerging at that time.